Schade added materially in overcoming the shortage of aircraft carriers of all types by overseeing their accelerated construction thereby contributing to the defeat of the German Submarine campaign, the shift from the defensive to the offensive in the Pacific, and the subsequent successful prosecution of the war.

The Mission was charged with the responsibility of exploiting German science and technology for the benefit of the United States Navy's technical Bureaus.

Schade's Masters thesis entitled Deformation and Stresses in Pipe Bends was published later that same year by MIT's Department of Naval Construction.

In June 1937 Schade received the degree of Doctor of Engineering in Naval Architecture for his research on strength of ship structures and his landmark dissertation entitled Statik des Schiff-Bodens unter Wasserdruck.

After graduating, but prior to leaving Europe, the Bureau of Ships ordered Schade on a tour of inspection, as student observer, of representative shipbuilding plants and model basins in German ports; plus naval establishments of The Netherlands, France, Britain, Italy, and Austria.

Also that summer, the professional organization of Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) published Schade's paper on his study of Bending Theory of Ship Bottom Structure.

At this time Newport News was tackling the mighty job of acting as design agent, responsible for the creation of detailed working drawings, for the Navy's new Essex-class aircraft carriers.

This made Schade the Carrier (type) Desk's direct liaison at Newport News solely to effect work on the Essex design.

This paper proved to be an important work, as the theories espoused therein by Schade were thereafter accepted and adopted by BuShips as new policy and practice regarding estimating static responses on welded stiffened ship panels.

In the weeks following the attack on Pearl Harbor orders were sent to ships and stations around the world recalling the people they felt best suited for a particular task.

Ordered detached from his role as SNLO at Newport News in late December 1941, he was to report to "Main Navy" for duty at the Bureau of Ships by January 1, 1942.

The fact that the most important ship type, arguably the aircraft carrier, for the anticipated nature of fighting would be placed in the hands of a mere commander speaks volumes as to the complete faith both Robinson and Van Keuren had in Schade.

The commendation attached to his award read as follows: For exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding service to the Government of the United States as head of the Aircraft Carrier Section, Bureau of Ships, from January 1942 to July 1944.

Exercising a high order of engineering ability and leadership, he added materially in overcoming the shortage of aircraft carriers of all types, thereby contributing to the defeat of the German Submarine campaign, the shift from the defensive to the offensive in the Pacific and the subsequent successful prosecution of the War.Two days before Christmas, 1944, Captain Schade was advanced to the rank of commodore.

Schade was to create, and head, a team of scientific and technical specialists to obtain and exploit German science and technologies in areas immediately behind the front lines of fighting in Europe.

Schade's exceptional work as chief of the United States Naval Technical Mission in Europe earned him a Gold Star in lieu of a second Legion of Merit.

Charged with the responsibility of exploiting German science and technology for the benefit of the Navy Department technical Bureaus and the Coordinator of Research and Development.

Additionally, the Government of Great Britain made Schade an Honorary Officer of the Military Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

On November 1, 1945, he was appointed Director of the Naval Research Laboratory, at Anacostia, relieving the man who had chosen him to run the Carrier Desk at the outbreak of the war, Rear Admiral Alexander H. Van Keuren.

Students are still today exploring Schade's original theoretical thinking on effective breadth of ship structures and often cite his works in their doctoral dissertations.